How Do You Design Holiday Cards For Linoleum Block Printing?
Mass-produced holiday cards are available in a mind-boggling array of designs and themes, but making your own allows you to personalize your holiday message. And besides, it’s fun! Here’s how to design a card. Remember that anything you carve away won’t print – it will show as plain paper. Anything you don’t carve will print in whatever color ink you choose. Make a relief print by carving away everything but the design. Carve away the block around the tree so that the tree stands out and prints, to create a card with a tree on a snowdrift at night. Carve out the design, alternatively. Carve out the tree so that you’ll print a color block with a tree in the middle. Use both methods by carving a snowdrift and a few stars out of one block; on another block, carve everything away except the tree. Select a theme – a tree, a dreidel, a star, a sprig of holly. Select a design with simple lines and shapes, which is most appropriate for linoleum block printing. Decide how many colors you want.
